Power Quotes - Page 24

• Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

  William Ellery Channing

  Wise, Exercise, Men

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(420 p.)”, p.155

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• Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

  Paul Goodman

  Matter, Comedy, Language

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• Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

  Thomas More

  Government, Law, Leader

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• Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

  Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

  Heart, Thrones, Opinion

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• I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Politics, Oppression

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

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• The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.

  Harold Wilson

  Limits, Belief, Bounds

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• Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

  H. H. Asquith

  Fields, Hateful, Trouble

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• Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

  Beth Revis

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Beth Revis (2011). “Across the Universe”, p.250, Penguin

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• The number of the hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. It is our most precious resource. The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.

  Jim Loehr

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Numbers

  Jim Loehr, Dr. James E. Loehr, Tony Schwartz (2005). “The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

  A. D. Gordon

  Important, Eternity, Creatures

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• Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

  Henry Adams

  Political, President, Poison

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• I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

  Teresa of Avila

  Possible And Impossible, Catholic, Achieving The Impossible

  St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.29, TAN Books

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• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

  Francis Bacon

  Fall, Knowledge, Angel

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• A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Expression, Addiction

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• In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mistake, Political, Politics

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• Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Political, Democracy

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Public Opinion, Politics, Should

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Political, Politics, Corruption

  1971 In The Listener.

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• What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1954). “Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford”

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• The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Husband, Gun, Hands

  "To My Daughters, With Love". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

  Robert Burton

  Love, Passion, Sun

  The Anatomy of Melancholy pt. 3, sec. 2 (1621 - 1651)

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• The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

  George W. Bush

  Silly, Science, California

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Agriculture, Contentment

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• Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Bears, Habit

  "Dictionary Of Latin Quotations Proverbs Maximus And Mottos, Classical And Medieval, Including Law Terms And Phrases". Book by H. Z Riley, November 5, 2015.

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• A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

  James F. Cooper

  Government, Intimidating, Royalty

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